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Sauropodiformes ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)174880https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=174880
Rankunranked clade (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Sauropodiformes
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-DinosauromorphaBenton 1985
-DinosauriformesNovas 1992
-Dinosauria
-Saurischia
-EusaurischiaPadian et al. 1999
-Sauropodomorpha
-MassopodaYates 2007
-SauropodiformesMartinez et al. 2011
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Sauropodiformesunranked cladebelongs to Sauropodomorphastated with evidenceMartinez et al., 2011
Sauropodiformesunranked cladebelongs to Massopodastated with evidenceMcPhee et al., 2015
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)708
First Recorded Appearance228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance58.7 - 48.6 Ma
Paleogene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Diapsida)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. N. Martinez, P. C. Sereno, and O. A. Alcober, C. E. Colombi, P. R. Renne, I. P. Montañez, B. S. Currie. 2011. A basal dinosaur from the dawn of the dinosaur era in southwestern Pangaea. Science 331(6014):206-210

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Aardonyx
genus
listed (PBDB)1201 Ma
Early Jurassic
201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Blikanasaurus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Camelotia
genus
listed (PBDB)2209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Gongxianosaurus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1183 Ma
Early Jurassic
183 Ma
Early Jurassic
Jingshanosaurus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2201 Ma
Early Jurassic
201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Ledumahadi
genus
listed (PBDB)1201 Ma
Early Jurassic
201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Leonerasaurus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1197 Ma
Early Jurassic
197 Ma
Early Jurassic
Melanorosaurus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
10228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Meroktenos
genus
listed (PBDB)1228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Mussaurus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Sefapanosaurus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Seitaad
genus
listed (PBDB)1191 Ma
Early Jurassic
191 Ma
Early Jurassic
Xingxiulong
genus
listed (PBDB)1201 Ma
Early Jurassic
201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Yizhousaurus
genus
listed (PBDB)1201 Ma
Early Jurassic
201 Ma
Early Jurassic
Yunnanosaurus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
17201 Ma
Early Jurassic
174 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Sauropoda
unranked clade
listed (PBDB)Sauropod2,685228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
58.7 Ma
Paleocene

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
2011Sauropodiformes Martinez et al. p. 210
2015Sauropodiformes McPhee et al. p. 19 fig. 12

References

Martinez R. N., Sereno P. C., et al (2011) A basal dinosaur from the dawn of the dinosaur era in southwestern Pangaea, Science 331 6014, 206-210 doi:10.1126/science.1198467
McPhee B. W., Choiniere J. N., et al (2015) A second species of Eucnemesaurus Van Hoepen, 1920 (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha): new information on the diversity and evolution of the sauropodomorph fauna of South Africa's lower Elliot Formation (latest Triassic), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 5, e980504:1-24 doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.980504
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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